The last three kingdoms

Chapter 723 Winter Truce
Liu Yin also shot a false shot. He had no intention of fighting Qi Wannian in Fuping at all. In this freezing season, when dripping water turns into ice, it would cost a lot to fight in the field. Frostbite alone is very important. The downsizing of the battle is something Liu Yin can't bear.

The biggest problem now is that the soldiers lack enough warm clothes. In this era when people don't know what cotton is, winter protection is the biggest problem.

Liu Yin has been in Yizhou at the beginning of his travels. The climate there is not bad, at least it doesn’t freeze in winter, and he won’t feel too cold. But in the past few years after arriving in Guanzhong, he really felt the severe cold in the north. Even without a thermometer, Liu Yin can feel that the coldest winter in Guanzhong can be as low as minus [-] degrees.

In such cold weather, marching and fighting will become a high-risk thing. After a battle, the number of people killed in battle falls second, but those who freeze to death and frostbite account for a large proportion. There are not enough winter clothes. Keeping out the cold is indeed the biggest problem.

Rich people may be able to buy clothes made of animal skins or silk to keep out the cold, but ordinary people can only add some fillers such as flax to the interlayer of ordinary linen clothes, and the poorer people can only Fill in some thatch to keep out the cold, often when a cold snap hits, many people freeze to death on the streets.

The army will not be that good in cold clothes. After all, silk and animal skins are scarce materials, and there are not enough people to supply the upper class. It is obviously unrealistic to equip every soldier. ,
When climbing the snow mountain and crossing the grassland, Liu Yin had prepared more than 3 pieces of silk winter clothes to ensure that the Shu army could successfully complete this extremely arduous journey. In this way, in order to prepare these [-] silk winter clothes, Liu Yin still spent a lot of effort and cost a lot to make them. When he arrived in Guanzhong, without the support of the silk producing area, it was impossible to make silk winter clothes. Realistic.

Therefore, when the cold winter came, Liu Yin's first choice was to avoid fighting, and try not to fight if he could. Weishui, back to Chang'an.

When Qi Wannian got the news, he was furious, but there was nothing he could do. Now that Liu Yin's army returned to aid Chang'an, his plan to capture Weinan was declared bankrupt, and he lost more than 1 troops. In the end, he got nothing. One can imagine Qi Wannian's depression.

But this winter was extraordinarily colder than usual, so Qi Wannian had no choice but to hide in Fuping and let this winter pass.

The heavy snow covered the entire land of Guanlong, and the two sides entered a truce period, accumulating their strength and waiting to fight again next year.

It was not easy for Liu Yin this winter. Although Liu Chenhe was handling government affairs, Liu Yin was relieved and freed up to take charge of the military. Liu Yin's shoulders have also been burdened with many logistics and logistics matters, especially the logistics, which has become the biggest problem.

The entire Yongliang area is vast but sparsely populated, and the proportion of Hu people far exceeds that of Han people. This is also the reason why Beidi Hu was able to expand rapidly this time. The army of 15 is obviously overloaded, and it has been under great pressure in terms of food, grass, logistics and supplies.

Fortunately, the land in Guanzhong is fertile, and there is a lot of idle land. Liu Yin discussed with Liu Chen and Quezhen about implementing the system of garrisoning land. The military garrison is hopeless. The entire army has combat missions all year round, and there is no time to rest at all. Tuntian can only recruit refugees and use prisoners of war.This prisoner of war included soldiers from the Wei and Jin Dynasties captured in the Battle of Guanlong, as well as soldiers from the Hu tribe. Liu Yin organized them into the camp and made the best use of them as much as possible. After all, feeding these prisoners in vain also cost food. However, if they are released, it may replenish the enemy's strength, and it would be the best way to organize them into the farmland.

The garrison system is the most effective way to solve the problem of army food and grass supply. Of course, Cao Cao took the lead in implementing the garrison system in order to supplement the shortage of military supplies, which laid a solid foundation for Cao Wei's strength and unification of the north. Such a terrible and heavy tax will inevitably overwhelm the newly-built Yongliang regime, and the implementation of the garrison system can effectively alleviate the tax burden of the people in Guanlong, and provide a better way for Guanlong Create conditions for the people to recuperate.

It has been two years since the implementation of the garrison system. From the initial 4 to 20 people, it has now expanded to nearly [-] people, and the annual accumulation of millet reaches millions of hu, and the logistical supply problem of the army has been temporarily resolved.

How to gain a firm foothold in Guanzhong and turn the land of Qinchuan, which is eight hundred miles away, into a base for seeking hegemony has always been a question Liu Yin has been thinking about. Leaping forward to swallow Yongliang, his outstanding military talents are already comparable to the famous ancient generals.

But at the same time, Liu Yin is also soberly aware that how to govern this land is always his own shortcoming. In terms of governing the country, it is indeed Liu Yin's weakness. For this, Liu Yin has to admire Zhuge Liang. , both internally and externally, lifting weights like light, and governing a country in an orderly manner. Although the Shu Han was not the most powerful when Zhuge Liang was alive, it was not a force that anyone could ignore.

If he really wanted to do everything Zhuge Liang did by himself, no matter how big or small, Liu Yin asked himself that he couldn't really do it, not to mention that after he became the master of Yongliang, he was always in the midst of strife, so he couldn't sit down and deal with political affairs flawlessly. The so-called governor of Yongliang is really only the governor of the military forces of Yongliang.

However, Liu Yin discovered that he was indeed a talent in terms of internal affairs. He was quite competent in the post of governor of Yongzhou. In addition, Liu Chen was in charge of Chang'an, so Liu Yin had almost no worries.

The new year is the sixth year of Yanxing in the Shu Han Dynasty, the fourth year of Jin Taishi, the third year of Wu Baoding, and the year 268 AD. If it is true history, this year should be a very peaceful year, with almost no major events happening, and nothing to report. But because of the disturbance of Liu Yin, the traveler, the world became turbulent. From the third year of Taishi, the Hu clan rebellion broke out, and by the fourth year of Taishi, it had intensified, and a real troubled world came to the world.

(End of this chapter)