The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 172 Explain Gou Xi
For the vast majority of soldiers and prisoners of this era, there was nothing that a meal of beef bone soup couldn't solve. If anything, there was another serving of old duck soup the next day.

From then on, Liu Tai dispatched the prisoners who had just surrendered almost like an arm.

If you ask them to build a prisoner camp, then build a prisoner camp; if you ask them to count the number of prisoners, then count the number of prisoners.

All in all, in Gou Xi's desperate eyes, he just watched his men being driven by Liu Tai.

Gou Xi knew that the overall quality of his veterans had improved a lot because they had stayed in Liu Tai's prisoner camp, had good food, and read the "Book of Han" for half a year. This was why Gou Xi was reluctant to disband these soldiers.

After all, Liu Tai's prison camp was a prison camp. It was an adult school of this era.

In other places, if you want to study hard, there is no place.

But even so, these people did not want to join Liu Tai for various reasons.

But this does not mean that they can fight Liu Tai without any scruples.

After all, for the people at the bottom, even if they did not surrender to Liu Tai, Liu Tai generously gave them severance pay to let them go home. This can be regarded as a favor. Look at who among the other princes can do this. .

And when this gratitude arrived on the battlefield, these veterans felt more or less burdened when they faced Liu Tai.

But now that I have become a prisoner, the psychological burden has completely disappeared. As a prisoner, isn't it natural to listen to Liu Tai's words?
And Gou Xi also knew that his men would hesitate when facing Liu Tai, so Gou Xi actually did not want to collide with Liu Tai head-on.

Even Gou Xi had made up his mind. If Liu Tai really led the team to deal with him, he would just hang up his no-fight card and stay in the camp without fighting.

After all, if the delay continues, Wang Jun's threat will definitely be greater than his own, and Taishan County will fall into his hands sooner or later.

But what Gou Xi didn't understand was how Liu Tai appeared behind her. Just in case, she had posted scouts on the mountain roads in the Qilu Hills. If Liu Tai showed signs of walking on the mountain trails, he would Impossible not to notice.

But the problem is that Liu Tai came from behind him where the food should theoretically be transported.

How can I defend myself? Even if anyone builds a military camp, in order to ensure that the camp space is used as effectively as possible, unless it has been completely surrounded by the enemy, whoever builds a camp will also build an impregnable back camp for transporting food!

Even so, when Gou Xi saw that his soldiers were so obedient just because they had eaten Liu Tai's two meals, he built a prisoner camp and arranged for himself, it felt like he had refreshed his own philosophy of running the army.

But Liu Tai didn't care about this, and spent two days completing the editing for the prisoners one after another.

When these people were captured, Liu Tai thought for a while and decided that it would be better to send them to Linzi to serve as corvees for a year or two.

After all, although Guanggu City was successfully built due to Cao Yi's efforts, a waterway leading to the Bohai Bay still needs to be developed. It can even be regarded as a canal to a certain extent. A canal must lead to the Bohai Bay. .

This time, don't worry about how miserable the fourth-generation ship that was sent to you was, and how many times you had to stop and go to repair it.

But at least it proves that its team has the ability to sail offshore and deploy troops.

Under such circumstances, as long as this waterway can successfully open up the waterway between Bohai Bay and Guanggu City, then it will have the ability to launch the entire Bohai Bay.

If the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is built from Beijing to Tianjin, the projection range of its military power can be directly extended to Jizhou and Youzhou, which is more efficient than marching on the road.

The impact of this will allow Liu Tai to control the coastal parts of Qingzhou, Jizhou and Youzhou through the coastline more efficiently.

Of course, this is only the first step of your strategy. Only after this series is completed can you move on to the next step.

There are two main tasks. First, we need a canal from Jiaozhou Bay to Laizhou Bay.

This canal starts from Lingshan Haikou of the Yellow Sea in the south and reaches Sanshan Island in the Bohai Sea in the north. It flows through Jiaonan, Jiaozhou, Pingdu, Gaomi, Changyi and Laizhou, with a total length of 5400 kilometers, a drainage area of ​​[-] square kilometers, and runs through the Shandong Peninsula from north to south. , connects the Yellow Sea and the Bohai Sea, and is connected with the canal of Guanggu City, forming the most important inland shipping system in the entire northern Qingzhou.

If this water network system can be constructed smoothly, the economic impact it will bring is trivial, but the really important military role is.

After receiving the order, the fleet in Jiaozhou Bay can directly reach the Bohai Bay within three days, and reach all the cities along the Bohai Sea coast within two weeks, which is enough to solve all the troubles in these cities.

The next thing he needs to deal with is the issue of Pingzhou.

Because if you successfully complete your strategic vision, the team can successfully reach the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei area within a week, and your military deployment capabilities will reach an incredible level.

In Pingzhou in the north, we can directly carry out a comprehensive attack on Liu Tai's elite area. This is the weakness that Liu Tai fears most.

No matter who the occupier of Pingzhou is now, or whether he is aware of it or not, Liu Tai sees the biggest weakness of his entire Bohai Rim system. He cannot pray that others will not take advantage of this weakness and pretend to be Ostrich!

The current ruler of Pingzhou is the Murong clan of Xianbei. I heard that he has a good reputation in Pingzhou, and he especially respects the Jin court.

What if he ignored the Xianbei Murong clan and Liu Kun used his succubus talent to win over him?
If Shi Le sent someone to form an alliance with him, as long as the Murong clan entered the situation, Liu Tai would be very passive.

After all, Liu Tai knows too much about the explosion of technology. As long as you take out anything of a technical nature and there is communication between the two parties, guys of the same size who want to learn can always come up with a copycat version. .

The same goes for his own shipping technology. As long as you take out the shipping technology, it will take up to ten years. Liu Tai believes that whether it is the Jin Ting or the Murong clan of Xianbei who want to learn, they will eventually be able to learn these technologies one by one. past.

Liu Tai shook his head. After all, he didn't think too far ahead about his plan.

No matter how you put it, even if Gou Xi has solved it, he still needs to pass Wang Jun's level.

Only after passing Wang Jun's level can he successfully occupy the coastal areas of Youzhou, Jizhou and Qingzhou.

In this process, the lack of labor will probably be his never-satisfied pursuit. This time he was able to capture so many soldiers at once, which almost made up for his originally stretched labor force.

After all, they are prisoners. Even if his treatment of prisoners is much better than that of other warlords, prisoners are still prisoners, and Liu Tai can use them more unscrupulously, especially when carrying out some large-scale engineering projects.

"Tell me, what do you think I should do with you?" Liu Tai handled the matter thoroughly and immediately began to interrogate Qi Gou Xi.

"Humph!" Gou Xi snorted coldly and turned away, not wanting to answer Liu Tai.

Maybe even he himself didn't know how to answer. He knelt down and begged Liu Tai for mercy, but Gou Xi said that he couldn't do it.

He wanted to say harsh words to Liu Tai, but he couldn't tell whether Liu Tai had mercy on him.

The most important thing is that in Gou Xi's opinion, if his soldiers had not contributed, he would not have been defeated so miserably. At least he should have been able to escape.

Liu Tai looked at Gou Xi's appearance, went up and untied the rope that tied Gou Xi, and then said, "Are you not convinced?" "No!" After hearing Liu Tai's words, Gou Xi replied decisively to Liu Tai, "This time Although you succeeded in breaking into the camp, it was because the soldiers hesitated and disobeyed orders, otherwise even if you had the upper hand, you would never have captured me in one fight!"

"It makes sense, but I just knew that your soldiers were favored by me, so I personally led the troops into the camp, and it was because of the hesitation of your soldiers!" Liu Tai looked at Gou Xi and said, "In the end, you are not as good as me in running the army! "

"Hmph! You, Duke Liu, won this battle. If you want to be ridiculed, just do it!" Gou Xi couldn't help but said stubbornly.

"Since you don't accept this battle, you won't surrender if I ask you to surrender to me." Liu Tai looked at Gou Xi and said.

"Of course I won't surrender!" Gou Xi said stubbornly after hearing Liu Tai's words.

"Since you won't surrender, what are you still doing? Go back to your East China Sea country!" Liu Tai waved his hand.

"Are you going to let me go?" Gou Xi was a little unbelievable when she heard Liu Tai's words.

"Before I sent out the troops, Dao Zheng hugged me and cried and begged me to spare your life no matter what. For his sake, I would not kill you!" Liu Taidao said, "Since you are unwilling to surrender , then what are you waiting for?"

"Brother Chun..." Gou Xi heard Liu Tai's words and knew clearly that it was Gou Chun who was begging for mercy in front of Liu Tai, so Liu Tai finally chose to let her go.

Thinking again about the treatment he gave Gou Chun when he was under his command...it seemed like he didn't treat him badly either!
Gou Xi came back to her senses, looked at Liu Tai and said, "Then the soldiers and horses under my command..."

"For those soldiers who have served in my camp, if they want to continue to follow you after I ask them, I will let them follow you. As for those soldiers who have no record of staying in my camp, they need to be reformed through labor for two years. I want to If I go back to you, I will return it to you one after another!"

Liu Tai said, "In short, whatever happened to you at the beginning, what will happen to these soldiers in the future will not let you lose the foundation to stand on!"

When Gou Xi heard this, she gritted her teeth and said, "Those soldiers listened to your fallacies and received every little favor from you to achieve my shame today. You actually want to give such soldiers to me? Do you think I will accept it!" ?”

"Why don't you accept it?" Liu Tai said naturally after hearing Gou Xi's words.

"These soldiers are getting better treatment from me. Instead, they took the initiative to return to your service. Aren't they loyal to you? You should use them more!"

When Gou Xi heard Liu Tai's words, she didn't know how to argue for a while, and her face turned red.

If these guys were really loyal, there would be no reason why they would be captured by Liu Tai.

Liu Tai shrugged and patted his shoulders, expressing his intimacy and said, "Ten thousand steps back, these [-] soldiers were captured by me. Now you lack soldiers and generals. If you really dislike them, wait until you have soldiers and generals in your hands." Just return these people to me.

By the way, it's best to include their relatives, and just think that I charge some interest. If you don't, I'm very willing to accept them. "

"Are you planning to support me?" Gou Xi heard Liu Tai's words and heard more or less the hidden meaning in Liu Tai's mouth.

"That's right!" Liu Tai nodded to Gou Xi, "We have also fought several times, so we know the basics.

I can't give you Taishan County. This is the best place to send troops if I want to expand Yanzhou in the future.

At the same time, if I annex you, my power will completely merge with Sima Rui, which will not be a good thing for my overall strategy.

So since you are not convinced and unwilling to surrender, then you can just occupy the land south of Donghai Kingdom first.

This time you have been hurt, so Langya County will be a place for mutual trade between you and me, and I will open up some supplies.

Although I won't send troops to support you, I can still give you some support through transactions. Isn't it a bad treatment for you? "

When Gou Xi heard Liu Tai's words, she didn't expect Liu Tai to be so easy to talk to. She couldn't help but said to Liu Tai, "You want me to check and balance the south?"

"Yes!" Liu Tai heard Gou Xi's words and replied directly,
"I can't pay attention to Nanfang in the short term, but I'm worried that Nanfang will come and harass me, so why not let you occupy this land first.

Of course, if you are willing to serve Sima Rui and be a pawn in his hands, then just think that I am blind! "

"Of course I won't be submissive to Sima Rui!" Gou Xi refused decisively and added, "Neither can you!"

"Of course I can't do it now!" Liu Tai said calmly after hearing Gou Xi's words, "But I won't do it in the future.

So what, what else are you asking for? If not, I still need to go north to deal with Wang Jun! "

After hearing Liu Tai's words, Gou Xi's face became even more ugly.

He never expected that he and Wang Jun would join forces to attack Wang Jun from the north and the south, and Liu Tai's actions would be so clean and neat.

He didn't even last a month before he was put down, and now he had to rely on Liu Tai to show his dignity again to survive.

Even if there was a reason why Liu Tai mixed things with him from the beginning, he never thought that these people would be so vulnerable when they faced Liu Tai on the battlefield.

Now that my vitality is seriously injured, life and death are in Liu Tai's hands. Not to mention wanting to attack Liu Tai, I am afraid that it will take at least several years before my vitality recovers.

Because of this, Liu Tai was sure of Gou Xi. With this serious injury, Liu Tai took away most of the young men in the south of Qingzhou.

If Gou Xi wants to recover, even if he agrees to the mutual trade, it will probably take at least five years.

Not to mention that when Xu Kong saw Gou Xi in such a state of desolation, he might beat him up, and he would need to rely more on himself.

After this battle, it no longer mattered whether Gou Xi would accept it or not, because she had completely controlled his lifeline.

Liu Tai said to Gou Xi, "General Dao, whether you believe it or not, if I capture you again next time we fight, I will still let you go!"

Gou Xi couldn't help being stunned when she heard Liu Tai's words. She was so stubborn that she said, "Who wants you to let go? I'll capture you next time!"

Liu Tai smiled, but continued, "You and I both climbed up from the bottom. Unlike those aristocratic families of the Sima and Wang families, we know clearly the suffering of the bottom. As long as you don't lose your thoughts, I will always give it to you." Open the door!”

"No need!" Gou Xi walked out of the door without hesitation!
Liu Tai watched Gou Xi leave his military camp, with the corners of his mouth raised slightly.

Today's words are like seeds. I really look forward to what kind of flowers these words will bloom the next time I fight Gou Xi.

　There is no need to wait for an update today. I did some calculations and found that if I maintain the rhythm of one update every other day, I can finish it before NO. 30. So, I’d better return to this update rhythm.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)