The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 364 The Han Army’s Delay

Wang Sang's army came all the way to Xinye. Looking at the burning Xinye, the army went to extinguish the flames in Xinye and began to rescue the people of Xinye. Military historians immediately began to resettle the people of Xinye.

After all, Liu Tai's positioning of the people was different from that of the Jin court.

After all, the Jin Dynasty was in charge of a wealthy family. To them, the common people were nothing more than lambs dedicated to them.

As long as there is a need to sacrifice the people, the background of the Jin court will naturally be revealed. Even famous generals like Tao Kan are no exception to this. Even famous generals are more decisive when executing.

If possible, Tao Kan also wants to evacuate all these people to Xiangyang. After all, Tao Kan is ready for a deadly battle. In his judgment, his subordinates will inevitably suffer considerable losses. By then, every additional population will be larger. cannon fodder.

But Wang Sang's attack speed was too fast. At such an attack speed, it was impossible for Tao Kan to lead the people across the river like Liu Bei did. Even if the people had this idea, Tao Kan would not do it.

After all, Tao Kan only retreated with the army. Tao Kan had absolute confidence to retreat back to Xiangyang, but if he had to bring the people with him, he would be tired of life.

Therefore, Tao Kan decisively chose to abandon Xinye and cause as much trouble as possible.

However, the people who were entrusted to the hands of the Han army did not need to worry, because their houses and food were burned, which made it easier for them to migrate.

Wang Sang can arrange the army to move them to Yuzhou. After all, no matter how hard it is to leave their homeland, facing a survival crisis, for the people, it is more important to still stay alive.

And when they go to other places, they always have a chance to survive. After all, Cao Yi is already surveying the Yongji Canal. The construction task, whether it can unify the world in a short time or not, must be put on the agenda.

At the same time, after Liu Tai received news that Wang Sang had successfully captured Xinye and that the local people were migrating to Yuzhou, Liu Tai also began to give orders at this time, notifying and asking the prefectures in Sizhou and Yuzhou that had not yet been allocated fields. soldiers.

Then move their population and household registration to Xinye, and then directly distribute the land. While completing the process of vacating the cage and changing the bird, they can also build their own back road along the way.

For Liu Tai, although he tries his best to win the support of the broadest number of people, this includes both the lowest level people and aristocratic families.

But Liu Tai knows very well what his basic base is, so his food path and retreat must be guarded by his basic base. As for the aristocratic family, Liu Tai's only extravagant hope for them is not to cause trouble.

Of course, if they are willing to add icing on the cake, I will be happy to accept it, but I will not put my trust in them.

After all, no matter how far-sighted the family is, it is very tempting to look at the enfeoffment they offer, but the family has not yet reaped the benefits.

Who knows if these aristocratic families will be dissatisfied, and whether there will be some individuals who would rather be a member of an aristocratic family than a prince!

Liu Tai's orders continued to be issued, which was to ask Wang Sang to establish Xinye as a frontline base. If Fancheng could be captured, he would capture it. If he could not, he would carry out siege work and collect wood to prepare for crossing the river. Waiting for the main force of the Han army to converge.

Wang Sang naturally did not dare to delay after receiving the order, and even tried to complete his preparations as much as possible before Liu Tai arrived.

Tao Kan was observing the movements of Wang Sang's army on the other side, but he could see that Liu Han's army was starting to take action, and immediately the entire army was on alert. He even informed Sima Shao that the Han army had begun to invade, and only Fancheng remained on the north bank of the Han River.

In fact, Sima Shao had no time to respond at this time and could only count on Tao Kan to make peace with himself.

Because at this time, Zhao An of Xuzhou attacked Yangzhou, and Zhou Ping of Shu pointed his sword at Jiangling. As soon as Liu Tai moved, he attacked from three sides, which made Sima Shao feel great pressure.

Zhou Ping was a powerful general in Liu Tai's army who destroyed the Cheng Han Dynasty. He was vaguely the first person under Liu Tai's command. Zhao An was not simple either. He just rushed directly to Yuzhou and cut off the connection between Sizhou and Yanzhou and the central government. Jin Ting suffered a big loss.

Now, almost all of Zhao An's men are cavalry. Although the current autumn environment limits his iron hooves, when winter comes and the river freezes, how much combat effectiveness Zhao An can exert. To be honest, Wang Sui has no confidence in fighting in the wild anyway.

In contrast, Tao Kan had natural protection from the Han River, elite soldiers, and even a naval force. Sima Shao wanted to dispatch Tao Kan's men to other places to respond to emergencies and avoid the crises in other places first. Say it again.

It can be said that with Liu Tai's three-pronged dispatch of troops, the entire Jin court was almost tense to the extreme, and the Han army's attack did not progress very smoothly.

For example, in Jingzhou where Tao Kan personally garrisoned, Fancheng in the end was still quite firmly guarded, especially since Tao Kan also sent naval fleets to support from time to time. However, Wang Sang's attack did not go smoothly.

After all, if the attack like Nanyang's attack went smoothly, it was because Wancheng's defender did not expect the opponent's attack to be so fast.

But it is good to have an initial kill in this kind of thing. At least when Tao Kan passed through Fancheng, he informed Fancheng guard Liu Tai of the terrifying power of the army's siege force, so that Fancheng's soldiers were prepared in advance.

This made Wang Sang's siege quite difficult.

After all, Fancheng and Xiangyang are at odds with each other, and there are naval forces in between that Wang Sang does not have. Under such circumstances, it would be strange for Wang Sang to want to go smoothly.

Liu Tai was not in a hurry. After all, it was the destruction of a country, and it was the Jin court. It was certainly not something that could be solved in a hurry.

Liu Tai deliberately slowed down the pace of the attack. For example, at the end of June, he asked Wang Sang to send troops, and in July, he asked Zhou Ping and Zhao An to fly together. They used strategically rhythmic attacks to constantly disrupt the Jin court's military dispatch.

He doesn't ask for much from the attack of the three of them. As long as he is undefeated and the stalemate continues, he can dispatch all the troops of the Jin court. This is the situation Liu Tai hopes to see. At the same time, Liu Tai also has the ability to consume the Jin court. The meaning of national power.

After all, he has the advantage of eleven states, while the Jin Dynasty only has Jingzhou and Yangzhou. If he counts a little more, he can also count the barren Guangzhou. His food and energy are constantly transported from behind. Liu Tai intends to use I'm going to hurt someone.

What's more important is that he can directly bypass the aristocratic family and obtain food directly from the bottom through military history and government soldiers.

For Liu Tai, he is completely confident that he can continue this war for one year, two years, or even three years. As long as the land of China does not encounter natural disasters other than snow disasters, there is basically no problem.

However, the Jin Dynasty relied on aristocratic families to establish the country, so the food collected by Sima Shao, the ruler, had to go through powerful aristocratic families.

Now that the war is going on, powerful people from aristocratic families will not only withhold as much food as possible for their own benefit, but more importantly, Sima Shao cannot do anything to them.

After all, Jiangnan's powerful tycoons were not interested in the so-called enfeoffment because of their horizons, but they would decisively hoard them when there was a war.

As for the aristocratic families who crossed the river under his command, that was the meaning of enfeoffment. To be more precise, they had seen the civilization of Yanhan and instinctively wanted to escape from the pit of Jinting, but they did not find any opportunity to sell themselves.

This made it difficult for Sima Shao to work. Because Sima Shao was neither afraid of quick victory nor quick defeat, but the stalemate between the two sides made Sima Shao more or less worried. Especially in the three-pronged battle, all three routes needed to regularly escort food. This made Sima Shao had an even worse headache.

Don’t forget that when Zu Ti was still alive, there was a famine in the south of the Yangtze River, and then there was a long-term civil strife between Wang Dun and the Sima family. During this period, the Sima family had no time to cultivate fertile fields and encourage farmers to grow mulberry trees.

On the other hand, the aristocratic family is very active in reclaiming land. However, it is quite difficult for the aristocratic family to spit out the food grown on the land it has reclaimed. Even Sima Shao cannot do this. After all, this thing involves interests. .

Therefore, although the Sima clan is on the defensive, its food shortage problem is actually much more serious than that of Liu Tai. It is not that the entire Jin court does not have so much food, but that Sima Shao cannot support the three-way war. And food to keep fighting.

This is Liu Tai's third insurance for this war. After all, as long as there is not enough food, even the four famous generals who join Lianpo can only obey the orders of King Zhao and take the initiative to attack. If you don't take the initiative to attack, then you will be Replace.

To put it simply, Liu Tai's plan was indeed to attack the Jin court, but the first half of the entire plan was to attack the Jin court in three ways, creating an opportunity for Su Jun to surprise and healthy, and directly kill Sima Shao and end this war. .

But if the Jin court survives this wave, then Su Jun will change his route up the Yangtze River and join forces with Zhao An to break through the Yangtze River defense line first, which can also achieve the strategic goal.

If this is not successful, then a strategic stalemate will continue to form. However, if Zhou Ping withdraws to Shu and Su Jun seeks blessings, the war will become a stalemate and consume.

He will build the Yongji Canal, find a way to connect the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, and then attack the Jin Dynasty.

At the same time, every year, Tian Zhen is arranged to build an army to go south, making plans to harass the Jin court every year. At the same time, an army is selected every year to harass the Jin army, just like the Tang Dynasty destroyed Goguryeo, first weary the enemy, and then destroy the enemy!

After all, in order to deal with Jin Ting, Liu Tai did set up a stage for Su Jun, but if Su Jun didn't seize it, then Liu Tai couldn't put all the opportunities on Su Jun.

Moreover, there is no reason to put all the strategy of destroying the country on Su Jun. As long as the national power is stronger than the opponent, it will be a waste!

Liu Tai, on the other hand, was patiently waiting for time to pass by. After all, it was still only July and August, even if it was the Little Ice Age.

The sun was still quite hot at this time, and when the hot summer passed, his soldiers could successfully exert their full strength.

In winter, although the combination of humid water vapor and cold air in the south can cause physical and magical damage, the soldiers under his command not only have fish scale armor, but also have cotton armor for winter fighting, as well as mature fire pit construction.

When winter comes, it's not certain whose army can endure the cold of winter!

Liu Tai looked at the scorching sun and said calmly, "Arrange for Wang Sang and Zhao An to add black beans to their army's food. In the hot summer, these are the only things that can quench their thirst.

In addition, the fruits and vegetables in the north are also ripe at this time. They can be made into cans and sent to the front line. I think it can greatly boost morale! "

Liu Tai had already researched things like cans and the corresponding sealing methods.

However, it is mainly made to hold fish meat. There is no other way. Preservation of fish brought by sea ships is always a big problem.

Generally speaking, one relies on mining ice in winter, saving it, and taking the ice for personal use in summer.

After all, this is the Little Ice Age, and the most indispensable thing in winter is ice. What limits the amount of ice is the size of the cellar.

But relatively speaking, even if Liu Tai built super-large ice caves at the ports along the river, the ice accumulated in the winter was still far from enough in the face of the growing transportation needs.

As for the saltpeter ice making method, it is easy to make ice slurry and crushed ice, but it is a drop in the bucket if you want to make ice cubes needed for shipping.

Under such circumstances, in order to preserve fish meat and promote the further use of coal energy, Liu Tai naturally guided the pasteurization method. Relying on the massive experiments of the craftsmen, this sterilization method was finally figured out.

The existence of this technology has extended the shelf life of many fruits and fish, and has gradually become a more popular technology.

The most important thing is that this technology affects the storage time of food. For the Han people, it is necessary to popularize and inherit this technology.

Now Liu Tai gave an order, and some common fruits in summer and autumn were sent to the front line in cans.

Although these fruits are basically cooked, even so, the soldiers can eat these good things and maintain a very proud morale and continue to confront each other.

And as time passed by for both sides, after the two sides gradually entered the stalemate stage after a certain degree of testing and confrontation in the three battlefields, the atmosphere on the battlefield relaxed somewhat.

At least the Jin army believed that relying on its thick city walls and well-prepared defense system might not be able to withstand the Han army's attack.

Tao Kan was sitting in Xiangyang, but he couldn't help but frowned when he saw Wang Sang's attacking rhythm.

Because he could feel that although Liu Han's army began to attack, the rhythm of the opponent's attack was a bit wrong.

After all, with the opponent's pace of attacking Wancheng on the first day, even if Fancheng has its own support, as long as the opponent attacks regardless of the cost, it is not difficult to capture Fancheng.

But the problem is that after the opponent occupied the new field, they completely lost their initial aggressiveness.

Although they also attacked Fancheng, they can only be said to be quite satisfactory. Fancheng, which had already fallen early, is still in our hands.

To a certain extent, the other party seemed to be simply coping, which made Tao Kan a little confused.

At this moment, Tao Zhan walked in with a copy of Wang Xizhi's newspaper and said with a serious look, "Father, Liu Tai has personally recruited!"

Tao Kan took the newspaper from Tao Zhan's hand, and for a moment, Tao Kan's expression turned solemn.

He knew the real crisis was coming.

(End of this chapter)