A thousand-year-old family that began with the Battle of Makino

Chapter 519 Hedong changes the world situation, Mo Yan’s Zhangming line of defense
Time goes back to the first year of Taixing, Liu Cong died of illness, and his son Liu Can succeeded to the throne of Han and Zhao.

After that, the domestic situation of Han and Zhao changed dramatically.

The auxiliary minister Jin Zhun, because his daughter was favored by Liu Can, squeezed out the minister Ling Fan Long, who was also the auxiliary minister, and gradually stole the power of the Han Dynasty.

Soon Jin Zhun launched a coup, killed Liu Can, and beheaded all the Xiongnu Liu clan living in Pingyang, both young and old, in Dongshi. He named himself General and King of Han, and sent envoys to Sima Rui to claim vassal status.

Liu Yao, a clan member of the Han and Zhao clans, heard that Jin Zhun rebelled in Pingyang and most of his clan members were killed. He was furious and personally led his army from Chang'an to Pingyang to quell the rebellion.

On the way, they met Taibao Huyanyan and Taifu Zhu Ji who had fled from Pingyang.

They said to Liu Yao: "Now that Jin Zhun has killed his clan members, you are the only one closest to Taizu. It is better to show respect and inferiority and establish a full system, so that we can better fight against Jin Zhun."

To prevent Jin Zhuang from labeling the king as a rebel and making unknown people suspicious. "

Liu Yao believed that what Hu Yanyan said was reasonable, and then he ascended the throne and restored Fan Long and other ministers who had escaped from Pingyang to their original posts.

In order to win over Shile, who was stationed in Hebei Province, and jointly put down the rebellion, he was made a general.

Liu Yao's army then joined forces with Shi Le's army to attack Pingyang.

Soon, Pingyang was attacked by two armies. He lost consecutive battles. The soldiers in the city were very frightened. In order to survive, Jin Zhun was killed by his subordinate Jin Ming. The people all recommended Jin Ming as the leader and asked him to find a way for everyone to survive.

Jin Mingduo heard about Shi Le's cruelty and was unwilling to leave the wolf's den and enter the tiger's den again.

Liu Yao usually had a good reputation. After careful consideration, he decided to send the imperial seal to Liu Yao and prepared to surrender to Liu Yao.

When Shi Le learned that Jin Ming had surrendered to Liu Yao but not himself, he was furious and sent his main cavalry to attack Pingyang. Jin Ming was unable to stop him and asked Liu Yao for help.

After Liu Yao got the news, he immediately sent Liu Ya, the general who conquered the north, and Liu Ce, the general who Zhenbei, to greet Jin Ming.

Fifteen thousand men and women from Pingyang all followed Jin Ming to Liu Yao, but Liu Yao soon beheaded Jin Ming and the Jin men and women to avenge the Liu family members who were killed in Pingyang.

In the second year of Taixing, Pingyang was captured by Shi Le. At this time, Liu Yao and Shi Le were at war with each other, and they were likely to meet each other at any time.

However, because Liu Yao had an unstable foothold in Guanlong and had worries about his future, he did not dare to fall out with Shi Le right away, so he sent someone to confer Shi Le as Taizai, lead general, add special gifts, and grant Shi Le the title of King of Zhao in the twenty-four counties of Jizhou.

I want to use this to stabilize Shi Le first so that I can free up my hands to deal with the hostile forces in the Guanlong area.

Shi Le was also worried that Pingyang's terrain would give his cavalry no advantage, so he immediately accepted Liu Yao's appointment and returned to Xiangguo.

But there was already great dissatisfaction with Liu Yao and Han Zhao in his heart.

After Shi Le stopped attacking, Liu Yao also launched an offensive against Guanlong at an extremely fast speed.

By the third year of Taixing, Liu Yao had successively captured Qinzhou and Yongzhou, and initially occupied the Guanzhong area.

The current situation in the world is:
The most powerful one is the Jin court, which established its capital in Ye. It occupies the east of Shu and the entire middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. It also controls the governor of Yuzhou Zu Ti, the governor of Liangzhou Zhou Fang, the governor of Bingzhou Liu Kun, and the governor of Liangzhou Zhang. Mao and Tao Kan, the governor of Guangzhou.

As for Wang Jun, he died of illness in the first year of Taixing, and his power was annexed by Shi Le.

The second is the Han and Zhao Kingdom, which occupies the vast area between Luliang Mountain and Taihang Mountain, as well as Guanlong, and nominally commands Ping Jin King Shi Le, who occupies Jizhou, Youzhou, Qinzhou, Yanzhou, and Xuzhou.

The third is the Chenghan Kingdom, which occupies the entire Bashu region and has almost no communication with the outside world.

The fourth is the Bai Kingdom, which occupies the Sizhou area of ​​Hebei and the three southern counties of Jizhou, totaling eight counties.

Taixing three years
February
Baiguo, Sizhou, Qiyang County, northern suburb of Chaoge, Jiangzuo Academy
This place is a forbidden area of ​​the Bai Kingdom. It is responsible for the production of weapons, armors, bows and crossbows and other military supplies needed by the Bai Kingdom army. It covers an area of ​​100 acres and is garrisoned by a thousand-man guard army all year round.

"Ping ping pong pong!"

A small courtyard does not have any vegetation. Instead, it is filled with waste residue, iron materials, and copper materials.
A broad-shouldered, round-waisted craftsman with a naked upper body and only a leather girdle covering the front half of his face was pounding the knife on the anvil while dripping with sweat.

Not long after, the big man put the prepared crimson knife embryo into the cold spring water tank nearby, making a sizzling sound.

After going back and forth many times, the big man felt satisfied.

The Han Dynasty's name was Mo Yan, and he was a descendant of the Mo family of the Bai Kingdom. According to the family genealogy records of the Gongzu Mansion, the Mo family of Chaoge of the Bai Kingdom was descended from the Mo family of the Bai Kingdom and was the successor of Mo Zhai.

They have been craftsmen for generations and are famous for making weapons and armor. They are a famous craftsman family in the Bai Kingdom.

Mo Yan is the most outstanding craftsman among the descendants of the Mo family. At the age of only thirty-two, he has already joined the Baiguo Craftsman Academy, becoming a master craftsman, and one of the top ten outstanding craftsmen of the Baiguo.

There are three thousand craftsmen in the craftsman's courtyard, among which there are only dozens of master craftsmen, hundreds of ordinary craftsmen, and thousands of craftsmen's apprentices.

Under full operation, it can produce a thousand weapons, a hundred armors and stomachs, fifty bows and crossbows, and more than a thousand other military supplies every day.

After putting the handle on the knife, Mo Yan stroked the new knife in his hand with pity.

I saw that it was different from ordinary knives. Its style was similar to that of a Guan Dao, and its blade was longer than that of a Guan Dao.

This knife is seven feet long, with a blade three feet long, a handle four feet long, and is edged on both sides. It weighs fifteen kilograms.

This was Mo Yan's research on the various weapon styles he had used in the past, specifically to fight against Shi Le and other northern cavalry. He visited Bai soldiers who had fought against Shi Le's cavalry.

In the third year of Jianxing, the White Army defeated Shi Le's army, and Shi Le plundered Guangping. With the help of cavalry, they repeatedly penetrated the battle formation.

The White Army could only rely on elite battalion soldiers to resist. Ordinary soldiers met ordinary cavalry of Shile Army and had no choice but to die.

And even for elite soldiers, the results of the battle were mediocre because they had no weapons to fight against the cavalry. If they encountered Shile's Su Guards and Black Cavalry, they could only rely on spears to form a dense formation to fight against them.

Later, Shile's army also had a countermeasure against the White Army's spear array, using mounted fire to concentrate fire from a distance, causing the White Army to suffer huge losses.

If they happen to be without spears, it will be difficult for even an elite battalion to win.

So Bai Guo issued a task to the Craftsman Institute and asked them to research weapons against the cavalry. In the past few years, master craftsmen have continued to come up with their works, but they are all based on the original ones with minor changes. The most common one is to lengthen the original spear by one foot, but this is difficult to carry.

Eventually it evolved into several sections of gun barrels, which were assembled on the spot during wartime.

In Gongsun Mansion, Bai Shu looked at the long swords with different styles in front of him, his eyes were filled with light, and he said softly to Mo Yan in the hall:
"Master Mo, can this really easily allow infantry to fight against cavalry?"

Mo Yan replied confidently:
"Please make it public."

Bai Shu, Mo Yan, Cheng Zuo Yuan Cheng, secretary Zuo Cheng Wang Shi, pro-soldier Sima and others came to the test site.

In the open space, there are several anthropomorphic wooden stakes, covered with Bai's finest armor.

Mo Yan took the knife and handed it to a sergeant beside the stake. After giving a few instructions, he returned to Bai Shu.

The sergeant was seen holding the knife, exerting force on his waist, and the knife struck down. The armor, stomach and wooden stake were instantly divided into two parts.

This was not over yet. The sergeant was seen spinning around in circles, waving his long knife, forming an airtight blade wind within six feet of him. He moved his steps and cut off two similar wooden stakes on the side.

"Good, great good!"

Bai Shu put his hands on his hands and laughed, and said to Mo Yan: "Does this sword have a name?"

Mo Yan said respectfully: "I haven't given a name yet."

Bai Shu looked at the long knife handed over by the sergeant, waved it a few times, couldn't put it down and said, "This knife was made by Master Mo, so let's name it Mo Dao."

Mo Yan was overjoyed and bowed: "Thank you so much, Sima!"

"The order is sent to Mo Yan, the master craftsman of the craftsmanship academy. If you present a sword for merit, you will be rewarded with a thousand gold coins, a hundred acres of land, and a noble title."

Mo Yan was so dizzy that he didn't even know when Bai Shu left.

The craftsman Cheng Yuan on the side looked at the confused Mo Yan, his envy was beyond words:
"Old Mo, you have made a great contribution this time. The Mo family will start to make a fortune from you."

Mo Yan quickly returned the gift and thanked Yuan Cheng for his introduction.

Yuan Cheng waved his hand to show that it was not necessary, because this time he also got Mo Yan's favor and was able to sneak into the public mind.

His Yuan Cheng is the Zuo Cheng of the Craftsman Academy.

There are left and right prime ministers in the Craftsman Academy. The status of the left prime minister is slightly lower than that of the right prime minister, but they are both fifth-rank officials.

The left and right Yuan Cheng is the highest official in charge of the Craftsman Academy. He is under the command of the Minister of Craftsmanship, but he also has to accept the leadership of the Five Soldiers Cao of the Shangshu Province, that is, he is under the dual control of the Minister of Craftsmanship and the Five Soldiers Cao.

With this recommendation, he will be able to surpass You Cheng and be promoted to the Five Soldiers Cao with Bai Shu's recommendation.

It just so happened that one of the ministers of the Five Soldiers Cao was begging for bones this year, leaving a vacant position. He had great hope that he could fill this gap and escape from the thankless place of the Craftsman Academy.

February 15th

Bai Shu showed the "Mo Dao" to his father, and Bai Zhai, the prince of the Bai Kingdom, showed it and solemnly stated that the Bai army could use this knife to form an elite battalion specifically for cavalry.

Bai Zhai asked Bai Shu to go into the palace with him to meet Bai Yan.

With Bai Yan's permission, Bai Zhai and Bai Shu began to change the existing army structure:
Today, there are more than 70,000 people in the Bai Kingdom.

Among them, the Yewang of Hanoi County stationed 5,000 people to guard against Han and Zhao;

There are 13,000 people stationed in Guangping County to guard against Shi Le's army in Xiang Kingdom;

There are 10,000 people stationed in Anping County, and they are still on guard against Shi Le.

There are 50,000 Chinese troops stationed in Chaoge, serving as the main force of the Bai Kingdom.

Since Bai Shu took advantage of Shi Le to go south to attack Zudi, the governor of Yuzhou in Jin Dynasty, Hebei was depleted of troops and sent troops to occupy the three counties of Qinghe, Anping and Pingyuan.

Later, in order to prevent the old incident in Guangping, Bai Shu relied on Zhangshui and Guang'ze and built the Zhangshui Defense Line imitating the Mingshui Defense Line.

Wuqiang Town was also set up in Wuqiang Township along the Zhangshui River in Xiabodong, Anping County, as the core of the defense line.

Ten thousand people were deployed along the entire defense line to prevent Shile's army from invading south. Duanjie, who had made great achievements in pacifying the three counties, was the general of the defense line.

Since Guang'ze is the connecting lake between Zhangshui and Mingshui, the two defense lines can form a line, so Bai Shu called the entire defense line against Shile in the north the Zhangming Defense Line.

Baishu appointed General Yuan An as the general of Zhenbei, General Ma Xie of Anbei as general of left town, and General Duan Jie of Andong as general of right town.

In this way, the entire Zhangming Defense Line protects Anping County, Qinghe County, Pingyuan County, Guangping County, Pingyang County, and Dunqiu County to the south of the defense line.

After the defense line was established, the effect was also very significant. Shi Le sent troops to attack many times, but all failed, and he withdrew his troops back to the division in frustration.

The adjusted organizational structure of the White Army is as follows:

The Hussar Battalion was divided from the Sixth Battalion of the Bai Kingdom, and a separate Hussar Army was established. Anbei General Ma Xie was appointed as the Hussar General, leading 10,000 Hussar troops to garrison the Mingshui defense line.

He ordered a horse farm to be set up in Guangping County to raise war horses; a mutual market was set up in Wuqiang Town to trade with various ethnic groups in the north and purchase war horses at high prices.

The Mo Dao Camp was set up and classified as the Sixth Battalion of the Bai Kingdom. It used the new Mo Dao as its standard equipment and had a troop strength of 5,000.

In order to better defend the country, he ordered the Guowei Mansion to recruit 30,000 new infantry, which brought Bai Ting's available Chaoge army to 100,000 and the national army to 110,000.

Since the Bai Kingdom occupies eight counties and has more than one million people, and the Bai Kingdom has accumulated hundreds of years of accumulation, it is more than enough to support an army of 110,000 people.

(End of this chapter)