Riding and chopping: Overlord of the Han and Hungarians

Chapter 330 329. Farmer
Linzi temporary town government.

Everyone discussed the future strategy and discussed for a day.

All kinds of good methods are recorded, followed up with careful research, and then implemented.

And after the meeting is over.

The Taiping Army also began to act.

Of course, the more than 30 Taiping troops were not stationed in one place.

With Linzi as the center.

The radiation range of the Taiping Army is almost one-third of Qingzhou.

The eight counties of Changguo, Banyang, Yuling, Gaowan, Zouyang, Dixian, Dongzou, and Qiancheng are all on the front line facing the buffer zone of the Han army.

More than 20 Taiping soldiers were stationed in the eight counties.

Moreover, these eight counties almost perfectly defend Linzi's west, north, and southwest directions.

In the south of Linzi, because of the trend of Mount Tai, as well as the Wei Mountain and Gypsum Mountain in the east, they are all considered natural moats and have geographical advantages.

To the east of Linzi, Linqu, Guangxian, Juxian, Yixian, Shouguang, Pingwang, and Taixiang were all controlled by the Taiping Army. In Qingzhou, the counties in the west were all controlled by the Taiping Army, accommodating millions of Taiping people. , plus the original people everywhere.

At this time, the Taiping Army had a population of almost 30 million.

They all caught up with Beidi, which Zhang Qi had painstakingly managed for seven or eight years.

You must know that even now, the combined population of Liaoning, Changchun, and Liao is only about 600 million.

In less than half a year after the Taiping uprising, they gathered one-sixth of the combined population of these three places.

Sure enough, if you want a large population, you have to look at the Han Dynasty.

Now the number of Han people under Zhang Qi’s command is absolutely overwhelming. With a population of 600 million in the North, the number of Han people exceeds 400 million and nearly 500 million. For other populations, the Huns have about 10,000+, Wuhuan Xianbei has about [-], and Fuyu There are hundreds of thousands of Sushen, and some newborns.

This is the population composition of Northland.

However, under Zhang Qi's rule, the concept of each ethnic group is not obvious, and the gap is not big. Everyone is the Chinese people united under the feet of the gods. This is the mainstream thinking in the Northland.

As for the Zhengxuan team who came to Qingzhou, one of their tasks is to spread this idea.

Qiancheng County.

This is the main defensive area of ​​Qingzhou Taiping Army.

Its importance even exceeds that of Linzi, the temporary town government.

There is no other reason, because this is an important supply county for the Qingzhou Taiping Army.

The supplies sent from the sea will land in Qiancheng County.

Qiancheng is close to the sea in the north, Luoshui flows in the west, and Zou County and Di County are guarded in the east. This place is perfect as a distribution center for supplies.

The documents sent from Linzi were also sent to Liao from here.

It only takes three or four days to go there, and it takes only one week to go back and forth. The waterway is extremely developed.
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Shanhai City.

The letters and documents from Qingzhou have arrived.

Hu Lin handed it over to Zhang Qi after reviewing it.

"Well, the Qingzhou side has also started to move. They will give them everything they want. If it is a knight, my personal guard cavalry is temporarily useless, so let's recruit it."

"Send [-] horses to train a team of [-] cavalry, which is enough to deal with Cheng, and the guard cavalry is enough to dominate a battle."

Zhang Qi said a few words, Hu Ling handed over the final document, stamped the final seal, and passed it on.

"Your Majesty, how should the 30 frontier soldiers under the command of Habayashiro deal with it? Now the two armies of Tiger, Ben and Eagle have sent the goods of the people outside the two counties of Yuyang and Shanggu back to Shanhaiguan at the fastest speed."

"Once the 30 frontier soldiers arrive, they will definitely concentrate their forces and come straight to Shanhaiguan."

"Well, heh."

Zhang Qi wiped his face and activated his blood.

"Don't worry too much. There is still time. From the land of Sanyi to the north, with the current shortage of horses in the Han army, it will not be impossible to reach it in a year or a half."

"Since this is the case, then seize this gap, use Shanggu and Yuyang as the boundary, build docks, towers, and city barriers, and then use the most familiar defense battle of the Han army to deal with it. It must be a wonderful scene."

Zhang Qi laughed.

Hu Ling couldn't be as confident and optimistic as Zhang Qi.

According to the news from Chang'an, Liu Che has gradually regained control of the court. The methods used by the princes and kings who cooperated with the Liao region began to be countered by Chang'an, and they were a little weak for a while.

Zhang Qi glanced at Hu Ling and roughly guessed what Hu Ling was worried about.

"It doesn't need to be like this. Although the war has not yet started, it has reached such a stalemate. The next thing is to look at the competition of resources."

"The Han Dynasty has a vast territory and rich resources, but there are many people. Our place is small, but the agriculture is developed, the sea fishing is developed, and the number of people is small. Our two sides are almost on the same level in terms of resources."

"but!"

Zhang Qi smiled profoundly.

"We still have the Taiping Army. With such a living signboard, the anger of forced conscripts in Handi will only intensify. Just watch."

"Things like uprisings are often sparked by a single spark to start a prairie fire. It won't be long before the counties in the Han area will be in turmoil again, especially those places where the Taiping Army passed by."

"Sometimes Zhengzhi means are very useful, but sometimes, they will be extremely weak."
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"Grandfather! Why! I don't accept it!"

A village that had just been passed by the captain of the school.

A young man with five severed fingers on the palm of his left hand questioned the old farmer who had just held him back with a blushing face.

"Woo ha ha, why, woo."

The farmer's eyes were full of tears.

He also wanted to know why.

But he knew that if he didn't take his third baby just now, the last seedling in his family would be taken away and sent to the army.

"Your eldest brother and second brother, they were enlisted in the army a few years ago and have not returned yet. Sanba, do you think they are dead or alive?"

"Probably dead."

Farmers ask and answer themselves.

"Sanba, look at your hands, why are you so ignorant of your lesson, you stopped me last year, if it wasn't for your mother, your whole hand would be gone, this is fate, Sanba, it is fate. "

Farmers have resigned themselves to their fate, the year before last, the year before last, last year, this year.

Four years in a row.

Hahaha, four years in a row.

They lived hard year after year, but year after year they were in despair.

Last year his daughter-in-law Sanwa's mother was gone, so what about this year?
The farmer resigned to his fate, but his son obviously hasn't.

With red eyes, Sanwa returned to the messy home.

Putting a stone sickle on his belt, he walked out without saying a word.

When he came to his grandfather.

Only then did Sanwa speak.

"Grandpa, I can't survive in the village anymore, and I'm leaving too. If you want to stay here, it's unfilial to my son. If you go with my son, I can protect you."

After finishing speaking, Sanwa remained silent again, and walked out of the village.

Looking at his son's thin back, the farmer sighed.

Go back to the home you built with dirt and grass.

Silence for a long time.

The farmer overturned his bed with a stone pick behind the door, then dug a while, and fastened a bronze sword to his waist.

Turn away.

(End of this chapter)