Kai Fu Han

Chapter 509 Gritting Teeth
Wunan received the intelligence that the puppet Qi army was dispatching troops early, and directly chose to go out to fight.

The distance from Juye to Yanggu County is more than 20 miles farther than the distance between Daming Mansion and Yanggu County.The Tenth Brigade set off after the puppet Qi army, but arrived at Yanggu County one step earlier, and attacked Yanggu County first, giving the puppet Qi army a disarm.

The [-] Xing Han Alliance field troops faced the [-] miscellaneous soldiers of the puppet Qi. Liu Xinqi was not worried about losing, so he did not send troops to support after receiving the intelligence.

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In fact, Liu Xinqi was most worried about the southern route.

The commanders-in-chief of the East and West South Zhao armies: Yue Peng and Han Zhong, their reputations in later generations are too loud.

Hearing that Nan Zhao was gathering troops in Haizhou, Liu Xinqi immediately dispatched the [-]th Brigade south to support him because the commanders of Nan Zhao's troops were these two men.

They lead troops to fight against foreign races, and they basically win more with less.Moreover, the physical fitness, combat literacy, combat will, and morale of foreign soldiers at that time were generally better than those of Zhao soldiers.

In other words, they led a weak brigade and were able to win despite being outnumbered. This shows how high their "commander" is.

In addition, Yue Peng is still a national hero, Liu Xinqi really doesn't want to meet the soldiers of Nan Zhao.

After being defeated by the Xinghan Alliance twice in a row, the surviving Puppet Qi dared to gather forces to march eastward. Liu Xinqi was very worried that the Southern Zhao Army would also move northward.

"Send an order to Sun Li and ask Liu Xinyuan to lead the fourth brigade south to support the southern front." After much thought, Liu Xinqi still felt uneasy and sent another brigade south.

Liu Xinyuan is good at special warfare. With him going south, the southern front will be stable.

On the ninth day of the first lunar month, Liu Xinqi saw Xu Zhong waiting outside the door as soon as he got up.

Since setting off from Penglai at the end of December, Liu Xinqi slept in a house for the first time. Now that the war has stabilized and Yanshan City has been cleaned up, Liu Xinqi had a good rest last night and his energy was fully restored. When he woke up in the morning, his face was radiant.

"What happened? You came to me so early in the morning." Liu Xinqi asked.

"The Kingdom of Jin made another damaging move and robbed all the food rations of the people west of Qingchi. Then they told the people that the Xinghan League would provide relief in Yanshan County and provide food and housing. Starting from last night, Refugees continue to come from the west, and by this morning, there was an endless stream of refugees on the official road." Xu Zhong replied.

"What a shame. Didn't the special battalion strangle those food requisition teams everywhere? How could the Jin Army be allowed to do such a thing?" Liu Xinqi was puzzled.

"The Jin Army dispatched the main force to collect grain. Each grain collecting army had about [-] people, and five or six grain collecting troops were dispatched at one time." Xu Zhong explained.

This news had been reported before, and Liu Xinqi did not expect that the Jin army had suffered such a loss at the time.

Tens of thousands of people went out to collect food, but it was estimated that the food collected was not enough for the food army. It seems that the Jin army mainly wanted to cause trouble for the Xinghan League.

"The commander-in-chief of the Jin Army knows us very well and knows that we will not leave these people to die without saving them." Liu Xinqi sighed.

The land in Hebei is basically populated by Han people. The word "Han" in the Xinghan League shows that the Xinghan League will definitely save these people.

And if we start to save these people, it will greatly reduce the combat effectiveness of the Xinghan Alliance army.

"Although the New Year has passed, the weather is still very cold. These refugees must be properly resettled, otherwise many people will freeze to death at night." After speaking, Liu Xinqi turned around and went back to his room, got dressed and hurried out of the city.

Commander-in-Chief of the Jin Army is right, Liu Xinqi will indeed take care of food and shelter for these refugees.

When I arrived outside the city, I saw that thousands of refugees had gathered in the west of the city. Zhao Yinghao was leading the army to maintain order. You were cooking thick porridge in the army's big iron pot, and the refugees were queuing up to receive the porridge.Liu Xinqi walked closer and saw that it was rice porridge. There were some salted fish pellets in the porridge. It should taste good.

"There are too many, and they are still coming." Zhao Yinghao came over to report.

"It doesn't matter, we will accept as many as you come." Liu Xinqi replied.

In fact, accepting refugees is a good thing in a sense. These refugees are not like those refugees in later generations who have religious beliefs. The Han people have always only believed in their ancestors and yearned for a stable life.

As long as the Xinghan League accepts them and gives them a chance to survive, they can directly accept the hearts of these refugees.

Someone has territory.

These refugees look miserable now, but as long as they have a few meals to eat, they will be very good laborers.

"Allocate part of the general camp to house these refugees. They will be crowded first. Once they have recovered, we will arrange for them to work and build houses." Liu Xinqi arranged.

"Yes." Liu Zhijie accepted the order: "We still don't know how many refugees will come in the future. Should we transport some food from JD.com?"

"Yes, the grain should be shipped here." Liu Xinqi nodded, then called a guard and asked him to pass an order to the Golden Eagle Signal Corps and send a message to Denglai, asking the alliance department to arrange for the grain to be transported to Cangzhou and docked directly from the coast east of Yanshan Mountain. .

The garrison was ordered to speed up its march, and if the supply road was heavy, it could move backwards. The soldiers should travel lightly and simply, and they must reach Yanshan on the [-]th.

"The garrison still has to do things like pacifying the refugees and guarding the prisoners. The field army has to free up its hands to fight the Jin army." Liu Xinqi arranged: "When the garrison comes, let them expand the simple port in the east to prevent ships from transporting food." Come here, unloading has become a problem."

"Okay." Zhao Yinghao responded. Seeing Liu Xinqi's explanation in such detail, he realized that he might be going on another expedition.

"I will take the [-]th and [-]th brigades to Qingchi County tomorrow. I believe the garrison will arrive the day after tomorrow at the latest. It's up to you to pay more attention here." Liu Xinqi patted Zhao Yinghao on the shoulder.

"Don't worry, it's no problem." Zhao Yinghao assured him by patting his chest.

With [-] field troops guarding [-] prisoners and an unknown number of refugees, the pressure was very high.

However, the thorny and disobedient officers among the prisoners have been eliminated. The Sixth Brigade has nearly [-] soldiers, so this task can definitely be completed.

In the afternoon, more and more refugees came, and Liu Xinqi was already feeling a little uneasy.

The Tatars of the Jin Kingdom did not know how much evil they had done in the west to allow so many people to flee their homes.

From the people who escaped from the disaster, we learned that the Jin soldiers basically did not kill anyone. Only those who resisted with swords or stubbornly refused to leave their hometowns would be killed as a warning to the monkeys.If you are willing to leave your hometown and go east, the Jin Army will give you a day or two of rations, so that you can save enough to go to Yanshan County.

Liu Xinqi asked some people how they could survive the cold at night.
"Keep walking, and when it gets a little hot at noon, take a rest for two or three hours."

This answer brought the anger accumulated in Liu Xinqi's heart to its peak.

In order to avoid the cold, they had to keep walking at night. I don’t know how many people with weak constitutions died of exhaustion and freezing on the way eastward.

"Send someone to inform Jiao Rui that none of the three commanders of the Jin Army should be spared this time. They must all die!" Liu Xinqi ordered his subordinates through gritted teeth.

(End of this chapter)