Xu Huai went to Jishan to inspect the defense for four days, but he spent all of it in various kilns, investigating the resumption of production in each kiln. After meeting with Shi Zhen, he officially inspected Dayuzhai, Dahongzhai and other places early the next morning.
Construction status of surrounding Wuzhai.
The Huangjian City Inspection Department is set up in the upper reaches of the Huangjian River. In addition to protecting more than 20 nearby kilns and resuming production, the terrain of the Huangjian Valley where Dayuzhai is located is also extremely important.
The upper reaches of the Huangjian River valley is located between the eastern and eastern sections of Jishan Mountain. The Huangjian River leaves Jishan Mountain and goes south. It is the boundary river between Zhiliang County and Lu County in Ruzhou. It faces Juci Mountain in the north, and Yingshui River flows from the canyon between the two mountains.
Flow through.
To the west of the canyon are the two counties of Dengfeng and Yingyang under the jurisdiction of the enemy's Heluo General Administration, which are surrounded by the western section of Jishan Mountain and Wan'an Mountain and Shaoshi Mountain; to the east of the canyon is Yangzhai County in the west of Xuzhou.
In the past hundred years, porcelain fired in Jishan has been mainly sold to Hehuai, Heluo and other places through Yangzhai and Yingyang. Mountain trails were opened from Dayuzhai and Dahongzhai for merchants to lead to Yangzhai.
Yingyang.
After Chushan incorporated the Black Shirt Army and the nearby Wuzhai forces, it stationed two thousand elite troops. In addition to preventing the enemy from peeping into the hinterland of Ruzhou from the south, it could also contain tens of thousands of enemy troops at Yingyang, Yangdi and other places.
move.
On the other hand, after the fall of Bianliang, they fled into Funiu Mountain. There were too many refugees in Jishan, 140,000 people.
We cannot compete for land with the bottom mountain people of Funiu Mountain and Jishan Mountain. The cultivated land confiscated within the Ruzhou Basin will basically be used to house the generals recruited from Ruzhou.
The state promotes large-scale construction of forts, post roads, dams and other large-scale construction projects to maintain the livelihood of hundreds of thousands of refugees through work-for-relief methods, and at the same time strengthen the organization of young refugees.
Chushan was unable to launch a large-scale counterattack in a short period of time, and did not even consider recapturing Ruyang and Songxian for the time being. However, it chose dangerous places to build forts north of Dayu, Dahong and other villages, and opened up the southern part of Jishan.
The mountain road connecting the Ruzhou Basin extends the defense line to the northern foot of Jishan Mountain, but it can put as much pressure on the enemies in the west of Beijing and Heluo as possible under the existing conditions.
There are several docks currently under construction, the northernmost one is located in Jiwanggudong Valley.
Xu Huai stood on the unfinished wall of Jiwanggu and looked north.
The view was no longer blocked, and one could see Yingshui flowing in the canyon less than twenty miles away. Shi Zhen, Wang Zhang and others beside him said: "Before the Chihu people completely surrendered to the Dangxiang people,
We have to capture Yingyang and Dengfeng counties to the west of the canyon, and maybe we can increase our chances of winning in the future!"
Capture the canyon on the north side of Jiwanggu, block the enemy forces in the west of Beijing from the upper reaches of Yingshui River Valley, and then capture Yingyang and Dengfeng. Then the troops can advance from the valley between Jishan Mountain and Wan'an Mountain.
Directly pointing to the Yishui River in the west - Songxian County located in the upper reaches of the Yishui River and Ruyang in the southeast of Guangcheng Zhejiang will be defeated without attack.
Only in this way can the situation in Ruzhou be considered complete.
However, in the west of Beijing and in Heluo, the enemy forces are several times that of Chushan, and there is still no shortage of elite red cavalry to guard important towns. Chushan is currently defending the city and the mountains and rivers.
The Yingshui River Valley north of Jishan Mountain?
Wang Zhang, Shen Lian, Jiang Xie and others really don't have much confidence in this.
In the following days, the Huangjian Inspection Department completed the recruitment of more than a hundred kiln workers in Jishan. Xu Huai also completed the inspection of the defense line at the northern foot of Jishan and led the newly recruited batch of kiln workers back to Wuyang.
At this time, hundreds of craftsmen and craftsmen drawn from Huaiyuan and Xinyang were also assembled in Wuyang. After returning to Wuyang, Shen Lian did not delay and directly led thousands of craftsmen and kiln workers to Longtan Ridge. Promote the construction of the factory there.
It is also a credit to Chushan that it has laid some foundations in the past few years. Otherwise, how could it be said that an iron-making factory with an annual output of five million kilograms could be built if it was wanted?
Lifengtang's caravan heading to Qinzhou also returned to Wuyang two days ago.
The remnants of the Khitan currently occupy Qinzhou and the area to the west. If Chushan wants to maintain contact with them, the caravan must first go up the Han River to Hanzhong, and then go west over the mountain road at the southeastern foot of the Qinling Mountains - this road is long and dangerous, and one trip It takes about half a year to walk down.
However, Xu Huai still maintained contact with Qinzhou in the form of business and trade regardless of cost.
Lifengtang's Qinzhou caravan not only exchanged more than 300 pairs of good armor and hundreds of loads of tea and iron medicinal materials for more than 500 good horses, but also brought back Xiao Linshi's personal letter.
In the letter, Xiao Linshi mainly expressed his concern that the Chihu people would launch a large-scale attack on party items in the near future.
More than a hundred years ago, the Pingxia tribe of the Dangxiang people occupied the rich and fertile Hetao Plain to establish the Xia Kingdom. At its peak, it occupied the north and south of the Yinshan Mountains, the western and northern parts of Shaanxi and Hexi and other places.
After the Khitans and Dai Viet entered into a peace alliance and the relationship softened, the Dangxiang people frequently attacked Guanshan for more than a hundred years; and the frequent wars not only made the Western Army of Dai Viet stronger in combat effectiveness, but also the Dangxiang's 200,000 to 300,000 cavalry The troops have also maintained strong combat effectiveness.
In the early days of the rise of the Chihu people, after annexing the Klei tribe, the buffer force between them and the Dangxiang people, they tried to conquer the Dangxiang people first, but encountered fierce resistance, and then turned their attention to directing their troops against the more decadent Khitan people inside. .
The Dangxiang people finally resisted the first large-scale invasion of the Chihu people, but they did not arouse enough vigilance and attention internally. In the following ten years, they continued to have wars with Dai Viet on the Shanxi-Shaanxi border, and even refused the Khitan people's request for help.
Until the Khitan territory east of the Daxianbei Mountains, Yunshuo, Yanji and even the northern foot of the Yinshan Mountains were all under the rule of the Chihu people; until the Khitan Kingdom, which once had tens of millions of people and a territory of thousands of miles, was ruled by the Chihu people After the conquest, only tens of thousands of remnants fled west; until Bianliang, the imperial capital of Dai Viet, fell and the entire north was trampled by the Red Cavalry, the party members woke up as if from a nightmare and signed a peace alliance with Dai Viet, thinking of joining forces to resist the Red Army. The invasion of the Hu people.
However, at that time, the northern part of Guanshan and the Weihe Plain basically fell into the hands of the Chihu people. Dai Viet and the Dangxiang people only maintained a border in the west of Fengzhou and Qinzhou further west.
After Emperor Jianji succeeded to the throne in Xiangyang, in addition to the two armies of Zhennan Zongwangfu and Pingyanzong Wangfu, the Chihu people invaded south and captured Guanshan, Hehuai and other places. Their troops stationed in Yinshan continued to move southward. Raid and plunder the border towns of the Party members.
At the same time, Bi Hai, the eldest prince of the Chihu people who was granted the title of King Ping Xia Zong, used these three or four years to occupy the entire territory of Gaochang Kingdom in Xizhou, and directly attacked the Hexi land of the Dangxiang people from the west.
At this time, the Chihu people completed the semi-encirclement of the Dangxiang people from the west, north and east. Xiao Linshi had a premonition that the Chihu people's war to completely conquer the Dangxiang people might be launched at any time——
The Dangxiang people were on the verge of extinction, and the internal struggle for power was still extremely fierce. Xiao Linshi did not dare to expect how long the Dangxiang people could hold on.
Xiao Linshi wrote this letter in the hope that Xu Huai and the Dayue court would be prepared for the Dangxiang people to be conquered by the Red Husbands within two years.
Once the Dangxiang people were conquered and Hexi, Pingxia and other places were occupied by the Chihu people, the remnants of the Khitan who lived in Qinzhou and the area to the west at this time, if they did not move, would face the front of the Chihu people again - except for
In addition, even if the Chihu people will not give up their expansion to the extreme west, they will definitely send more troops to the south to attack Dai Viet.
After seeing Xiao Linshi's letter, Xu Huai could not calm down for a long time.
According to normal military deployment, after the Chihu people occupied the entire territory of Khitan, they should first deal with the party members and then go south with all their strength. However, Dai Viet showed too incompetent and weak, which prompted the Chihu people to rush into the Central Plains with hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses.
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The Chihu people's postponement of the southward offensive this winter was not due to any setback, but simply to return to the established strategic deployment.
They knew too little about the intelligence of the party members. According to Xiao Linshi's handwritten letter, they might not be able to leave Chushan for two years.
"The situation is more urgent, and the time left for Chushan is too limited. The reclamation of Nancai Encirclement requires the full participation of the Wang family," Liu Qiong'er hugged Xu Huai's generous arms from behind and said quietly, "You can't either
If you delay Wang Xuan any longer, you can't possibly still understand her thoughts, right?"
"..." Xu Huai turned around, held Liu Qiong'er in his arms, gently rubbed her cheeks as white as the first snow with his fingers, and said with a wry smile, "Even if you don't mind, things are not that simple..."
"You are so slow, even if you are just pretending, I am very happy. After all, no woman in this world is completely willing to share her beloved man with others,"
Liu Qiong'er pressed her cheek tightly against Xu Huai's generous chest, listening to the powerful beating of her heart, and said softly,
"Of course, even if I am deceiving myself, I would rather see Wang Xuan marrying you. It is more like a deal between Chushan and the Wang family - Mr. Shi had already negotiated the general matter with Wang Wenchong when he stayed in Hanchuan.
Now it’s time to see who can be sent over to say that the marriage is suitable. In my opinion, Uncle Seventeen and Aunt Seventeen still need to go to Hanchuan..."
